PHI 3170 Chapter Notes -Direct And Indirect Realism

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You can be a direct realist, an indirect realist, or an idealist. One of the most important argument in support of indirect realism (indirectly seeing an object in the world that is causing the object in your mind): Pain is not an idea in the fire http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/direct_and_indirect_realism http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/philosophy_of_perception: variability of secondary qualities as opposed to stability/constancy of primary. 2. 1 same substance at constant temperature (ex: water) cold to one hand, hot to other viii 21. Argument from perceptual error illusion & hallucination. Time lag argument when you look at the sun, you"re seeing it as it was 8 minutes ago. Refute locke (1): only secondary qualities are continuous. Take something with primary qualities and see if there is a continuum. Ex: trace the shape of a knife press your hand on it and there is pain. Refute locke (2): find primary qualities that are relative (to the observer)

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